At today's RBS/NatWest AGM, we will be demanding to know why public money is being used to finance deals that increase the prospect of runaway climate change. RBS has a history of being the UK high street bank most associated with fossil-fuel financing. The government appears to have turned a blind eye to such reckless investments and has done nothing to stop taxpayers money being used to finance controversial and destructive projects. Since recapitalisation in October 2008, RBS has taken part in loans worth almost £10bn to companies involved in the oil, coal and gas industry. The loans that RBS has been involved in include ones to controversial companies such as energy giant E.ON, and a company building a gas pipeline as part of tar sands extraction in Canada.

With the threat of climate chaos, it is unacceptable that public funds are supporting unsustainable fossil fuel projects. We are calling on the government to use its control over RBS to create a bank that is dedicated to delivering the green new deal that the prime minister has spoken so much about it. Whether it is prepared to use that power will be the real test of its commitment to creating a bank and a financial sector that can be a force for good in creating a low-carbon future.Benedict Southworth WDM, Kevin Smith Platform, Ian Leggett People & Planet, Duncan McLaren FoE Scotland, Johan Frijn BankTrack, Jeni MacKay SEAD, Geoff Nettleton Indigenous Peoples Links

Forget about the "anarchists" in London - workers in France, Belfast, Enfield and Basildon have been occupying their plants and, in some cases, holding managers hostage, to resist mass redundancies on appallingly unfair terms. This is the real anti-capitalism and the real class war. This is also how to build an alternative society from the bottom up, in practice, as ordinary people refuse to bear the brunt of a crisis caused by the rich, and take action to assert control over their own lives, struggle by autonomous struggle. But for some reason our media seem to prefer to focus on the pointless spectacle of idiots versus uniformed thugs in the City. Richie NimmoManchester

Gordon Brown doesn't even need any international support to close down almost one-third of tax havens. The simple reason for this is that 10 of the 35 main tax havens are either directly under UK sovereignty or are British overseas territories. These include the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Cayman Islands. And several other major tax havens including Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada are under Barack Obama's jurisdiction. Indeed, President Lula has complained that many major Brazilian companies are setting up in Delaware to evade Brazilian taxation.Alan SearleCologne, Germany